[UCGIS] two positions open in Geoinformatics at University of Salzburg

The Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS (division GIScience) at University of Salzburg, offers a researcher position (100%, payment according to collective agreement – “Kollektivvertrag für die Arbeitnehmer/innen der Universitäten”) to be filledASAP. The main task is to carry out high-quality research in the area of “Humanitarian Safety“, i.e., the development of methods for analysing user-generated data from social media to support migration management.

The major research tasks for the announced position are defined as follows:

Identifying spatio-temporal clusters in social media data as an indicator for migration movements

Semantic analysis of social media posts using self-learning systems

Spatio-temporal visualisation of migration clusters

Collaboration with social scientists and legal scholars to co-develop a privacy-by-design guideline as a basis for the methodological research

The Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS (division GIScience) at University of Salzburg, offers a PostDoc position (100%, payment according to collective agreement – “Kollektivvertrag für die Arbeitnehmer/innen der Universitäten”) to be filledASAP. The main task is to carry out high-quality research in the area of “Urban Emotions“, i.e., the development of methods for extracting contextual emotion information from real-time human sensors and crowd-sourced data from social networks.

The developed methods correlate emotion measurements from wearable psycho-physiological sensors with subjective observations and different crowd-sourced data repositories (Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, etc.). The major research tasks for the announced position are defined as follows:

Correlation of emotion information from different sources (emotion sensors, eDiary, social media) in space and time using machine learning algorithms

Development of a generic spatio-temporal cluster statistic measure

Carrying out real-world field studies to support urban planning

Investigation of the potential of using Virtual Reality environments as an alternative to real-world experiments together with psychologists